The 45 Road Club is not just about racing, it has a long history, almost 60 years, based on Touring and Social Rides....
45 "Club rides" are not "competitive" affairs at all, we leave that for the proper racing events! They are social outings done for general fitness, health and meeting up with other clubs members as well as the 45RC members. Rides normally take place in the mornings on Wednesdays and Fridays, with short/medium distance rides, then the larger and longer main club rides on Sundays. Distances generally depend on the weather and calibre of the riders present, and generally involve a short café break around halfway to refuel!

Results for round 2/23 of the 2016 45RC TT series....
On an evening when the weather turned distinctly unpleasant shortly before the event, and clearly put off a number of potential riders. But, 7 sound souls braved the elements which in the end were not too bad after all! Biggest concerns were the visibility of riders to other vehicles and the number and size of the puddles, especially on the corners. After checking it was cleared to run and away they all went.....and safely they all returned, wiser and damper! George Fox had a stellar ride, passing everyone to appear at the finish as first rider home, very well done Mr. Fox, with a good elapsed time as well!

Results for the 2016 season, round 1, the Whiston Hilly.
What a day, at 7:00am it was so foggy, with only around 10m visibility, I had some doubts about the event, but slowly the fog started to lift. By the time signing on was open it had lifted to around 200m, still somewhat cold but really no wind of any kind. Today could turn out to be a "fast" one.......see picture above by Kevin Glendenning ("somerandomrunner"), smack centre is the road down from Castle Ashby towards the final climb.

13 riders gathered to brave the Whiston and Cogenhoe climbs, the maddest one of all was Steve Peel who arrived on his TT (so no points) fixie bike wearing a 55t/16t ratio, this was going to be interesting........and he still managed to set the fastest time of the day despite almost grinding to a complete stop on the Cogenhoe hill then preventing Fabos from going off track. Well done Steve.

Some new riders appeared, batism of fire both with the conditions and the route, but they all made it safely round, no one puked after the finish and plenty of smiles, so a nice opening to the season......fastest points qualifying 45RC rider of the day was Daniel Parkes.

For all of you wanting to race this year you will need to ensure that you have an up to date British Cycling Race License and membership. Attached is the current calendar for the NCRA races where entry for the handicaps will be open shortly. 45 Road Club are organising the handicap on 19th March and a 3/4 scratch race on 12th June so I will be looking for a number of helpers for drivers, marshals and refreshments for these.

Turbo training sessions every Thursday at 8pm at Olney Football Club (MK46 4DW)

£5 per person, bring your bike, turbo trainer, bottle, towel and I will supply SIS drinks.
Sessions will be approx 60 mins long.
The venue has a large newly renovated hall with all the facilities you would expect from a sports club.
Call me on 07830988496 if you would like to join me for some fun winter training to get you ready for the spring!

Results for the Boxing Day TT
We had a very well supported entry, a huge thank you to all those who took advantage of the free entry and participated in the event.
Noticeable rides took place on the dry but extremely windy and blustery day across the board. Really, everyone did very well considering the weather.
Outright fastest time on the day went to the 2-up ride by George Fox and Tom Scott-Colins with a blistering 22:28.
Outright fastest solo rider on the day in a very creditable 23:23 was Jordan Peacock, but fastest 45RC rider and therefore the Trohpy winner was Rob Weall in a 24:09 ride.
Other noticeable performanes were - the fastest female solo ride by Steph Russell in 29:54, beating Caroline "I need a map" Hewitt by 6 seconds, who took two goes to get round the course having taken a wrong turn and came up the back lane and appeared at the finish line 15 mins after she started the first time! Steve Brierley did a good ride considering his back brake was jammed on all the way round! Commiserations to the tandem team of Ruth and Graeme Freestone-King who had a puncture on their tandem just before the start, then after fixing this and rolling up to the start Graeme managed to rip the complete sole off his shoe when unclipping!! On a lighter note congrats to Ben Elderton as the clear winner for dress and style and carrying his beer and pudding all the way round to enjoy on his finish. Finally a massive well done to Steve Marston with his epic 35:09 on a BMX bike, I kid you not!

Thanks also to John Crisp for pushing off and Ben and Anthony for the signage - which clearly Caroline didn't see!